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is taken from a Drawing, that was lately made by Mr GELL during his Travels in Greece.

FIFTH VIGNETTE.

The Gale and Sea having in some degree subsided, CAPE
COLONNA opens in distance; whilst ARION is seen standing
in silent agony over his dead friend PALEMON, (Canto the
Third, page 138 :)

"As thus defaced in death PALEMON lay,
ARION gazed upon the lifeless clay;
Transfixed he stood! with awful terror filled,
While down his cheek the silent drops distilled."

FIRST PLATE.

View of the BRITANNIA on leaving CANDIA, (Canto the First, page 43:)

"Majestically slow before the Breeze

She moved triumphant o'er the yielding Seas."

SCENE, Sunrise, with an hazy morning: the Ship is seen from the westward, her Sails all set, with a very light breeze; to the NE. appears the Isle of STANDIA, and to the right CANDIA.

SECOND PLATE.

The Ship having reefed Topsails a second time, they are left on the Cap to await the coming of a tremendous Squall: (Canto the Second, page 58:)

"Their Task above thus finished, they descend,
And vigilant th' approaching SQUALL attend:

It comes resistless! and with foaming sweep
Upturns the whitening surface of the Deep."

This throws the Vessel on her side, and splits the Mainsail; the Mizen is hauled up, the Helm a-weather, and the Ship is veering from the Wind.

THIRD PLATE.

I am unable to notice this View without expressing my admiration at the force and accuracy of its composition: (Canto the Third, page 127:)

"Ah Heaven!-behold her crashing ribs divide!

She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the Tide."

The Ship, having hauled to the wind with her head to the westward, is dismasted, and wrecked a little to the eastward of Cape COLONNA; of which a correct View is now for the first time given from a Drawing by Mr GELL:

"Where marble columns, long by time defaced,
Moss-covered on the lofty Cape are placed."

The height of this Cape has not hitherto been sufficiently expressed.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

OF

WILLIAM FALCONER.

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